Louisiana Purchase Series
6404 Hilltop, corner with McFarlin Blvd.
Thursday, November 11, 2003
Reception & Bicentennial exhibit at 6:00 p.m., lecture at 7:00 p.m.
"'In Territories So Extensive and Fertile': Spanish and English Speaking Peoples in Louisiana Before the Purchase "
Light T. Cummins, Guy M. Bryan Chair of American History, Austin College
Light T. Cummins holds the Guy M. Bryan Chair of American History at Austin College, where he is a Professor of History and has been a member of the faculty since 1978. A native Texan, he received his Ph.D. from Tulane University. He has been a Fulbright Scholar to Spain. His wife, Victoria Hennessey Cummins, is also a Professor of History at Austin College, where she specializes in the colonial history of Latin America.
Cummins is interested in late 18th and early 19th century Louisiana, Texas, and the Gulf Coast, especially the Anglo-American migration into these areas during and after the American Revolution. Among his publications are A Guide to the History of Louisiana (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982,) A Guide to the History of Texas ( Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988,) Spanish Observers in the American Revolution (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992), Texas: A Political History (Boston: American Press, 1990,) Austin College: A Sesquicentennial History (Austin: Eakin Press, 1999,) and several dozen articles in various historical journals. His book length manuscript entitled Spanish Borderlands History is currently in preparation under contract to the Texas A&M University Press. He is a lifetime fellow of the Texas State Historical Association and has served on the board of the Texas Council for the Humanities.
Cummins is the co-director of the Austin College Center for Southwestern and Mexican Studies.
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